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When walleye trolling on Lake Erie it seems braided lead core line is the way to go. i have my poles set up for casting from shore for steelhead. i use 6lb trilene xl mono. The memory sucks but it gives me the best casting distance. It is also light enough that I don’t have to switch when trout fishing in the creeks or fishing the smaller inland lakes on my kayak. My shimano reel has a great drag that never seems to fail me so I don’t lose those occasional big ones when I hook one. It is usually a good fight because you can’t just horse them in with the 6lb test.
I buy the 3,000 yard bulk spools to fill my reels.
Braided line is nice for jigging because you get much better feel, hook set, and it makes fish feel bigger.
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They come bigger than that in Canada.
@The_Kid
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that’s a new one, lol I’ve fished for a lot of years. and in my experience-line cannot make fish feel bigger. Monofilament has stretch, it acts kind of like a spring, it stretches and recoils. Monofilament lines also have a lot of line memory, where it coils up like a spring-braid never does that, braid gives you an instant hookset because it doesn’t stretch. but with both lines, you don’t know what size fish you got until you sucessfully land it or see it emerge from the water. A Rock Bass will fight like hell even if it’s 9 inches long, but it can fight like a 4 pound Smallmouth.
Fish with a pole strung with mono and then switch to a pole with braid, fish will feel bigger on the braid because there’s no stretch like you mentioned.
hmmm. i have to think about that. i think i’d want my fish to feel smaller. then be pleasantly surprised how big it was. (open invitation, boys).
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WTG, kid, I knew someone would bite!
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I disagree, but won’t argue.
who needs line?
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Exactly! If you believe and pray the fish come to you.
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funny, until a snapping turtle hits your hand, a Musky, a Cottonmouth, a Pike…
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I’ve done it and i can assure you its true but don’t argue or disagree until you try it. Then you can either agree or say I’m full of it.
your free White and your age, who am I to tell you what to believe ? line is just line to me and in my 46 years of fishing, the fish never felt bigger to me, no matter what damn line I had. no matter what bait I used, no matter what fishing pole or reel I had-I didn’t know what size it was until I got it up to the surface or landed. bud. but again, I can’t tell YOU what to think or believe in. 
Noodling for flathead catfish is a thing here.
I don’t think my noodle is big enough to catch anything of size…but wait.
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